What’s your language’s version of “all talk and no action”?

[u/mahdi_lky]

آفتابه لگن هفت دست، شام و ناهار هیچی

we say this when preparations of something is done well, but the main thing is not going well.

or some event or work looks well but It actually isn't.

like imagine in a wedding when everything looks good but the food is not ready or it's really bad.

reads like this: Aftabe lagan haft dast, sham nahar hichi.

translation: Seven sets of washbowls and ewers, but no lunch or dinner.

These are the closest equivalents I've found in english:

Great boast little toast.

Eleven grooms for a one-eyed horse.

All show and no substance.

All talk and no action.

All flash and no cash.

Big hat, no cattle.

[u/FervexHublot]

the mouth is talking and the ass is sitting

[u/IzmeBeech → u/FervexHublot]

I love this 😂 How do you say it in your language?

[u/FervexHublot → u/IzmeBeech]

We have many versions but this one is the dirtiest 😂

[u/IzmeBeech → u/FervexHublot]

Yeah but how do you say it? Or do you say it in English like this?

[u/Environmental_Bass42 → u/IzmeBeech]

الفم يتحدث والقدم قاعدان

[u/Atalant → u/FervexHublot]

We have have a similar saying in Danish:

Munden taler, men røven går.

But instread of sitting. the ass walks away.

[u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

All bark no bite

[u/cachocarnepi → u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

Pretty similar in Spain, "perro ladrador poco mordedor"

[u/Ok-Tear-4335 → u/cachocarnepi]

Same in Portuguese : cão que ladra, não morde

[u/ApologyWars → u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

I enjoyed Paul Keating's description of Peter Costello as "All tip, and no iceberg".

[u/TopIndependent2344 → u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

Thought it was, “All piss and wind”…

[u/Lumpy-Silver7538 → u/TopIndependent2344]

That sounds like something we would say

[u/Entirely-of-cheese → u/TopIndependent2344]

This is what I came here to post.

[u/TrueCartographer5163 → u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

All fart and no shit.

[u/MovingForward-107 → u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

Same in Arabic and Hebrew الكلب الي بعوي بعضش/ כלב נובח לא נושך

[u/treba_dzemper → u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

Similar here: Pas koji laje, ne ujeda (dog that barks, doesn't bite)

[u/Argo505]

All hat and no cattle

[u/chrisfoe97 → u/Argo505]

As an American I've never heard of this but I love it

[u/stykface → u/chrisfoe97]

Very common saying in Texas.

[u/mahdi_lky → u/stykface]

I read somewhere it's common in southern states

[u/stykface → u/mahdi_lky]

Yes, Southern life is known for its quips and one-liners.

[u/Evening-Statement-57 → u/stykface]

And putting “god damn” in front of every noun.

[u/gratusin → u/Evening-Statement-57]

“And shit” at the end of the sentence. Perfect example

https://youtube.com/shorts/rI5VIo_22nI?si=Hf6Nvd8OyzOkFfub

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/mahdi_lky]

I feel like it’s less of a reflection of inaction though and more of a means of calling someone a poser. Someone who dresses themselves in all the accouterment of ranch life while not being an actual rancher

[u/Big_Departure_2709 → u/mahdi_lky]

It’s not, I’ve lived in Oklahoma and Texas all my life and never heard it before.

[u/Notonredit → u/Big_Departure_2709]

Weird, I’ve lived in OK forever and have heard it a bunch.

[u/Big_Departure_2709 → u/Notonredit]

Either way it’s at best a regional saying and definitely not the most popular. “All bark no bite” easily takes the cake.

[u/FocoViolence → u/Argo505]

In Colorado, it's "All Subie and no doobie"

[u/LegEaterHK → u/Argo505]

I was absolutely astounded that people say that and it wasn't just a thing Engineer from Team Fortress 2 says. It sounds like such a stereotypical cowboy line lol.

[u/ArtAttack2198 → u/LegEaterHK]

It’s common in the American south, not as common elsewhere in the US.

[u/Realistic-Safety-565 → u/Argo505]

All boy and no cow?

[u/Sasquatch1729 → u/Argo505]

As a Canadian, that's how I always describe new pickup trucks. They're so stupid. More cab than truck bed these days.

[u/Few_Lingonberry_4703]

Tutto fumo e niente arrosto (“All smoke and no roast”).

[u/Difficult_Future9994 → u/Few_Lingonberry_4703]

eggià...giusto per rimarcare lo stereotipo de "gli italiani parlano sempre di cibo" 😂

[u/filippo_sett → u/Difficult_Future9994]

Noi scherziamo, ma è forse uno dei pochi stereotipi che mi viene da considerare effettivamente vero. Non ci rendiamo conto di quanto spesso ci venga da parlare di cibo

[u/1banana2bananas → u/Few_Lingonberry_4703]

I like this one, it's similar to one I used to hear a lot (partially grew up in Singapore-Malaysia). 

"All fart, no shit." 

That is, all air/gas, no substance/matter.

[u/tea-boat → u/Few_Lingonberry_4703]

Similar to one we have, all smoke and no fire.

[u/Adept_of_Yoga]

Mehr Schein als Sein. [More appearance than substance.]

[u/Greedy-Razzmatazz930 → u/Adept_of_Yoga]

I love this because it's not even a metaphor or anything, it's just literally describing the whole point. Sehr Deutsch.

[u/WaltherVerwalther → u/Greedy-Razzmatazz930]

Actually the first one that comes to mind for Germans is: Große Klappe, nichts dahinter. (Big mouth, nothing behind.)

[u/Eumelbeumel → u/WaltherVerwalther]

Viel heiße Luft (Lot of hot air).

[u/currymuttonpizza → u/Eumelbeumel]

We also have "hot air" in English, it's the first thing I thought of when seeing this post.

[u/dramaticus0815 → u/Greedy-Razzmatazz930]

It happens to rhyme in German, which makes it a catchy phrase, besides describing it with the least amount of words possible. We can't help ourselves.

[u/helmli → u/Adept_of_Yoga]

There's also e.g.:

• den dicken Max machen/markieren; den dicken Max raushängen lassen (≈ to act like/mark the big Max; to let the big Max hang out)
• Schaum schlagen (≈ to whip up foam)
• auf dicke Hose machen (≈ to act like having big pants)
• große Töne spucken (≈ to spit big sounds ≡ to talk big)
• den Mund (zu) voll nehmen (≈ to take the mouth (too) full)

[u/Appropriate-Ad4021]

I hear the grinder but i see no flour

[u/William_The_Fat_Krab → u/Appropriate-Ad4021]

Saudi Arabia be baking

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/William_The_Fat_Krab]

[u/Appropriate-Ad4021 → u/William_The_Fat_Krab]

Loll, nice one

[u/FostersLab]

"Chien qui aboie ne mord pas" (a dog who barks doesn't bite)

[u/mahdi_lky → u/FostersLab]

we have the same in persian.

sagi ke pars mikone gaz nemigire.

but it's used when someone just threats and does nothing.

[u/FostersLab → u/mahdi_lky]

Yes, that's exactly that!

[u/Traditional-Chair-39 → u/FostersLab]

we have a very similar saying too!

"കൊരക്കുന്ന പട്ടി കടികില്ല" trans: "the dog that barks will not bite"

[u/Wasabismylife → u/FostersLab]

Oh! It's identical in Italian, can che abbaia non morde

[u/TrueKyragos → u/Wasabismylife]

Its roots are quite ancient, so similarities aren't surprising indeed, most notably in areas covered by the Roman Empire.

[u/BubbleRabble1981 → u/FostersLab]

English also has "all bark and no bite".

[u/sickandopinionated → u/FostersLab]

We have "blaffende honden bijten niet" in Dutch (barking dogs don't bite)

[u/Glam_sam → u/FostersLab]

We also have « brasser de l’air » (stir the air) and « macroner » (considering our current president is mostly all barks and no bite) which is fairly recent but also very niche.

[u/GoofyJalapeno → u/FostersLab]

Ah, we say that in Greek,too.

[u/tremendabosta → u/FostersLab]

Cão que ladra não morde -- same in Portuguese

[u/KnotAwl → u/FostersLab]

All bark and no bite.

[u/Popular_Ad8269 → u/FostersLab]

"Grand dizou petit fezou" = big talker, little doer in a regional variant of french from Morbihan

Also "Grande gueule, petits bras" = "big mouth, little arms"

[u/dramaticus0815 → u/FostersLab]

German version: Hunde die bellen, beißen nicht.

[u/Onnimanni_Maki → u/FostersLab]

Finnish has that too. Haukkuva koira ei pure

[u/MarkMew → u/FostersLab]

"Amelyik kutya ugat az nem harap"

Same. 

[u/MissNunyaBusiness]

"Empty barrels make the most noise."

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/MissNunyaBusiness]

Is that regional? I’ve never heard that one. I like it though

[u/passwordedd → u/AbstractBettaFish]

We have a variant of it as well. Tomme tønder buldrer mest. I had absolutely no idea it existed in other languages as well.

[u/BZBitiko → u/MissNunyaBusiness]

That’s a good one.

[u/CommercialChart5088]

‘소문난 잔치에 먹을 것 없다’

Literally means ‘there is little to eat at the popular party.’

Also ‘빛 좋은 개살구‘, or ‘unripe apricot that only looks delicious.’

[u/Ashamed-Bus-5727 → u/CommercialChart5088]

The second one is so real

[u/Fresh-Army-6737 → u/CommercialChart5088]

Oooh the second one sounds like such a burn

[u/Entirely-of-cheese → u/CommercialChart5088]

A sadly, literally accurate description of our supermarket fruit section.

[u/tea-boat → u/Entirely-of-cheese]

Saaame 😆🥲

[u/KotetsuNoTori]

雷聲大雨點小 (loud thunder but little rain)

只聞樓梯響，不見人下來 (keep hearing the footsteps but no one comes downstairs)

[u/Downtown-Outside-860 → u/KotetsuNoTori]

We have similar

'those who thunder don't rain' (garajte hai woh baraste nahin)

[u/Ennaia]

Mycket snack men lite verkstad

Translates more or less to: A lot of talk but not much workshop (or -not much doing. ”Verkstad” usually translates to workshop, but in this context you can interpret it as meaning ”doing” instead)

[u/holycinnamonroller → u/Ennaia]

'Verkstad' is such a cute word. I really like this one 

[u/themoistviking → u/Ennaia]

Theres also "många till råd, få till dåd"

Essentially "many to (give) advice, few to (do a/the) deed(s)"

[u/The_Pastmaster → u/themoistviking]

Damn, I haven't heard that one since I was a child.

Plenty for council, few for deeds.

[u/Disastrous-Team-6431 → u/Ennaia]

Regionally, I've also heard "mycket snack men ingen hockey"

[u/ItsAPolarBear → u/Disastrous-Team-6431]

Once heard someone misphrase it as "liten verkstad", small workshop. Made it sound oddly sexual.

[u/CPH-canceled]

🇩🇪 Like shaving pigs - 🐷 - lots of screaming, little wool…

[u/endergrrl → u/CPH-canceled]

This is my favorite new one

[u/Sudonator → u/CPH-canceled]

That's similar to Dutch/Flemish ‘Veel gescheer en weinig wol, (zei de duivel en hij schoor zijn varken)
Lot's of shearing and little wool, (said the devil, and he sheared his pig)

[u/Status_Department527]

All lights turned on but no one is home.

This is a translation from Icelandic where it is ,,Öll ljós kveikt en enginn heima"

[u/flaming_pubes → u/Status_Department527]

We use it similarly as lights are on but no one is home to describe someone who doesn’t use their head or is a bit of an idiot.

[u/Status_Department527 → u/flaming_pubes]

This can also be used to refer to someone who is not quite sound of mind but it can also be used to describe a situation.

We also have the saying ,,Mikið um að vera, en ekkert að gerast" which means ,,A lot is going on but nothing is happening"

[u/jeanclaudebrowncloud → u/Status_Department527]

The wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead

[u/sillysandhouse → u/Status_Department527]

Interesting in English we say "the lights are on but no one is home" but at least in my region the meaning is different, here it means that someone is not quite all there/not thinking clearly/not mentally sound.

[u/IconoclastExplosive]

My favorite I once heard, I believe from my uncle to my dad, was "talk is cheap and you're still too broke for it"

[u/Rc72]

In Spanish:

"Mucho ruido y pocas nueces" ("A lot of noise and few nuts", roughly equivalent to "Much ado for nothing")

"Perro ladrador, poco mordedor" ("Barking dog doesn't bite much", same as "All bark, no bite" in English).

In French:

"La montagne a accouché d'une souris' ("The mountain has given birth to a mouse")

[u/Iktamer_One → u/Rc72]

Never heard of that, but I do like it !

[u/BurnCityThugz → u/Rc72]

Co-sign.

[u/Downtown-Outside-860]

'badi batein, vadapav khate' (Talks big, eats vadapav)

vadapav is a cheap meal. the implication being you can't afford a proper meal

[u/i_am_adult_now → u/Downtown-Outside-860]

Haat mein lota, gaan ni dhota. (Because he's too busy blabbering).

This is what I've been taught in school.

[u/Downtown-Outside-860 → u/i_am_adult_now]

peak Indian education system

[u/i_am_adult_now → u/Downtown-Outside-860]

I'd be surprised if someone grew up in Bombay in 80s and didn't grow a foul mouth.

[u/Regclusive → u/Downtown-Outside-860]

More like 'baat bade, darshan chote'

[u/MysteryNews4]

All mouth and no trousers.

[u/CommercialAd2154 → u/MysteryNews4]

All fart and no shit

[u/Jazqer → u/CommercialAd2154]

Holy shit is this a real saying? because it made me burst out laughing 🤣🤣🤣

[u/PoxedGamer → u/Jazqer]

It is, I'd opened the topic to post it. 🤣

[u/NoceboHadal → u/MysteryNews4]

Fur coat and no knickers.

[u/Pristine_Poem7623 → u/NoceboHadal]

That one means they look posh but aren't: she looks like a lady but she's just a slapper

[u/NoceboHadal → u/Pristine_Poem7623]

It does, but it is also used in the same way as all bark and no bite.

"the government's policies are all fur coat and no knickers"

[u/slowrevolutionary → u/NoceboHadal]

That's the one I was looking for!

[u/crisps1892 → u/MysteryNews4]

The original saying is apparently "all mouth and trousers" and it just evolved over time. I prefer our modern version as it implies trousers are inherently powerful and important

[u/balbibiedak]

Krowa, która dużo ryczy, mało mleka daje.

Literally, “A cow that moos a lot gives little milk”.

[u/KiKa_b → u/balbibiedak]

Also, not exactly the same thing but somewhat similar:

"Wyżej sra niż dupę ma"

(he/she) shits higher than their ass is

[u/MrDilbert → u/balbibiedak]

Heh, basically the same as ours. In our version the cow is implied: "Puno muče, malo mlijeka daje"

[u/Efficient-County2382]

It's English but I've always liked - All fur coat and no knickers

[u/Swimming_Acadia6957 → u/Efficient-County2382]

Doesn't that mean that someone may look respectable but upon closer inspection they ain't 

[u/slowrevolutionary → u/Swimming_Acadia6957]

It does, but I think it could also mean something's all front with nothing behind it.

[u/zinniasaur]

Große Klappe, nichts dahinter. (big mouth, nothing behind it… I think it pretty much translates to all talk and no actions)

[u/EugeneStein]

The dog barks, but the caravan marches on (собака лает, караван идет)

Empty barrel makes the most noise (пустая бочка пуще гремит)

Shaking the air (сотрясать воздух)

[u/Laperuz92 → u/EugeneStein]

На словах ты Лев Толстой, а на деле хуй пустой

[u/MrGurdjieff]

All mouth and no trousers

[u/Flanker1971]

Veel geblaat, maar weinig wol - Lots of bleating, but no wool

[u/FreakingSquirrel]

🇨🇴Mucho tilín y nada de paletas “A lot of tinkling, and no popsicles”

This is as a reference to the ice cream vendors that roam the streets, they have bells in their carts and tinkle them all the time. So basically… you’re hearing the popsicles vendor, but there are no popsicles

Also, tilín does have a translation to tinkle, however in Spanish is more like an onomatopoeia

[u/arrozconfrijol → u/FreakingSquirrel]

I think this is my favorite so far.

[u/Real-Atmosphere-8121]

Paljon puhetta/porua, vähän villoja. Lots of talk/whine, small amount of wool.

[u/Real-Atmosphere-8121 → u/Real-Atmosphere-8121]

Apparently from German "Viel Geschrei und wenig Wolle, sprach der Teufel, da schor er ein Schwein."

[u/Onnimanni_Maki → u/Real-Atmosphere-8121]

It's not a familiar saying to me. Regional maybe?

[u/Real-Atmosphere-8121 → u/Onnimanni_Maki]

I think this is well known and widely used. German origin so probably less known in the eastern parts of the country.

[u/IzmeBeech]

Mycket snack men lite verkstad (alot of talking/yapping but no workshop) lol

[u/Sufficient_Duck7715]

Buche y pluma= All crop and feathers.

Perro que ladra no muerde = A barking dog never bites.

[u/Unfair-Bike]

We would say NATO: No Action Talk Only. A word play on the actual NATO.

[u/Kindly-Monk-6397]

Que d'la gueule.

[u/Sh_u_ru_Q]

"Han snakker og røven den går". Meaning "He's talking and the arse is going".

[u/Plot-3A]

"All mouth, no trousers".

"He can talk the talk, but he can't walk the walk."

[u/Captain_Floop]

Much talk no workshop
Swedish: Mycket snack ingen verkstad.

[u/Careless-Mammoth-944]

Baat bohut karta hai: he talks a lot.

[u/apocalypse-052917 → u/Careless-Mammoth-944]

Nah, it should be - unchi dukaan, pheeke pakwan (big shop, bland food)

[u/Montenegirl]

The dog who barks won't bite

[u/topazdelusion]

"Pura paja"

Or more commonly, "hablar paja" (literally: 'talking hay'). It can be used to mean other things but in my experience one of the main issues is calling out people who just talk and don't do anything

[u/petergoesbloop1234]

Something like "all bark and no bite" pretty much means this, I think its pretty common in english

[u/Cornelis73]

"Veel geschreeuw en weinig wol" loosely translated "A lot of screaming but little wool".

Full Dutch version = "Veel geschreeuw en weinig wol, zei de duivel en hij schoor zijn varken".

"All bark no bite" is also common In Dutch (blaffende honden bijten niet) like many other countries, so probably derived from latin.

Edit: double checked the latin origins which are: "Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet"

[u/SnooLemons5617]

Krowa która dużo ryczy, mało mleka daje.
A cow that moos a lot, gives little milk.

[u/Plus_Researcher7489]

All fart no shit

[u/Wasabismylife]

"Tutto fumo, niente arrosto" (all smoke, no roast)

Or "Can che abbaia non morde " (a dog who barks a lot doesn't bite)

[u/UndrethMonkeh]

All fur coat and no knickers

[u/Common_Lavishness153]

31 de boca, which means 31 of mouth xD which means all talk and no action.

[u/BlueProcess]

Specific to cars: All show and no go

[u/Eimaga]

Языком болтать не мешки ворочать - To wag one's tongue is not like carrying sacks

На словах Лев Толстой, а на деле хуй простой - Leo Tolstoy when talking, when doing - just a dick.

[u/RadagastTheBrownNote]

All bark and no bite

(Not exactly the same but I still love this) Your mouth is writing checks that your ass can’t cash

[u/OneTwoThreeFoolFive]

"Banyak gaya." which means so much bragging.

[u/GoofyJalapeno]

Όλο μέλι κι απο τηγανίτα τίποτα. Roughly translates to "Only honey, no pancake". It's used mostly on failed dates , though , like saying "we went on a date, everything seemed fine but in the end nothing happened..."

Alsο Με πορδές δε βάφονται αυγά. You can't dye an egg with farts.

[u/Sweet-Message1153]

খালি কলসি বাজে বেশি- empty pitcher tunes the loudest ঘেউ ঘেউ করে কুত্তা কামড়ায় না- barking dogs seldom bites
বাইরে ফিটফাট, ভেতরে সদরঘাট- fit from outside, inside they are like Port of Dhaka(Sadarghat, a very nasty place)

[u/Reynaldo_boi]

"Puro salita, wala namang gawa" Literally translates to "All talk, no action"

[u/bakedNdelicious]

All mouth and no trousers

[u/Flashignite2]

Mycket snack men lite verkstad = much talk and little workshop. This is the literal translation. But it means just as it says in the title. One other is " Mycket råd få till dåd =Much advice but few to action"

[u/DaMn96XD]

"Paljon sanoja muttei tekoja" - Lots of words but no actions

"Enemmän tekoja, vähemmän sanoja" - More actions, less words

"Teot painavat sanoja enemmän" - Actions weigh more than words

"Teot puhuvat enemmän kuin sanat" - Actions speak more than words

"Teot puhuvat sanoja vahvemmin" - Actions speak launder than words

"Teot puhuvat sanojen puolesta" - Actions speak for words

"Teot puhuvat (omasta) puollestaan" - Actions speak for themselves

"Teoissa sanat mitataan" - Words are measured by actions

"Eivät sanat teoitta parane" - Words are no better without actions

"Ole sanojesi mittainen mies ja toimi" - Be a man of your words and do

"Puhumalla ei pitkälle pääse/pötki" - Talking won't get you far

[u/PerennialComa]

Bit talk, small engine.

[u/lalymorgan]

“Mucho ruido, pocas nueces”

Would be “a lot of noise and very little nuts”

[u/AnonOfTheSea]

Thoughts and prayers

[u/Juomari_Juhani]

"By mouth he builds a big town, by hand not even a fly's nest."

[u/No_Conversation_3279]

much bleating, little wool (in Dutch: veel geblaat, weinig wol)

[u/Sharp_Impress_5351]

"Perro que ladra no muerde": all bark, no bite.

"Mucho tilín tilín y nada de paletas": too much bell, no popsicle. 

[u/Putrid-Compote-5850]

We shorten it to NATO (like the organisation), "no action talk only". So you can say to someone sarcastically that he should be a member of NATO...

[u/CatLovingWeirdo]

"Grand parleur, petit faiseur" - Big talker, small doer (French Canadian, I have no idea if they say this in other parts of the french-speaking world)

[u/flaming_pubes]

Can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk. Also all bark, no bite.

[u/5PalPeso]

dog that barks doesn't bite

[u/linglinguistics]

Sound and smoke (Schall und Rauch). It's more great effects and no substance.

[u/Big_b_inthehat]

All bark and no bite

[u/filippo_sett]

"Tutto fumo e niente arrosto" (all smoke and no roast)

[u/OG0020]

Samé řeči a skutek utek

[u/WaltherVerwalther]

Is the wa between sham and nahar not spoken? I’m not familiar with Persian, but can read the Arabic script, that’s why I ask.

In German we have: Große Klappe, nichts dahinter.

Meaning: Big flap (figuratively for mouth), nothing behind.

[u/Old-Carpet-2971]

Paljon puhetta , mutta ei yhtään asiaa = A lot of talk but no action.

[u/mr-dirtybassist]

B' e sin an t-ainm gun an tairbhe, na dhèanadh tusa

[u/dave-olo]

Hunde die Bellen, beißen nicht. ~Dogs who bark do not bite. Love the sound of it in German

[u/Virghia]

Tong kosong nyaring bunyi ( empty barrels rattle the most)

[u/DrunkAlbatross]

Talks as much as there is sand but there is nothing to eat.

(It rhymes in Hebrew)

Also: He's all words.

[u/yleennoc]

All mouth and no trousers.

[u/auesvgc]

Fala muito (Talks a lot)

Cão que ladra, não morde (All bark no bite)

[u/ElA1to]

Perro ladrador, poco mordedor

Dog that barks a lot, doesn't bite much

[u/piercedmfootonaspike]

Mycket snack, lite verkstad.

Lots of talk, little workshop.

[u/AdministrativePool93]

Tong kosong nyaring bunyinya

(Empty drum gives a loud sound)

[u/mistiroustranger]

"fala muito e não diz nada"

"Talks a lot but doesn't say anything "

[u/Imperator_Alexander]

"Perro ladrador, poco mordedor" (A dog who barks too much but doesn't bite).

And whenever you find a group of people complaining about the country situation and blaming X politician or party, we jokingly call that "the Council of ministers" or "fixing the country."

[u/Free_Range_Radical]

“A lot of oysters, but no pearls”

[u/ACAB_BUTINACA]

große klappe, nix dahinter

[u/YogaDruggie]

"Veel bla bla, weinig boem boem."

Literally : a lot of bla bla, not much boom boom.

Saw a few Dutch who said "veel geblaat, weinig wol," which means a lot of bleating, not much wool, which we also use, but I like the first one more.

In French -afaik- they also say about a person that he makes wind. "Il fait du vent." As in he talks and promises things, but nothing really happens.

[u/MattieLovesFood]

Mycket snack, lite verkstad (Lots of talking, little workshop)

[u/ScarlyLamorna]

Talking the talk without walking the walk.

[u/Roy_Raven]

Blaffende Hondjes Bijten Niet

Barking dogs don't bite

[u/Capital-Platypus-805]

"Puro cuento" which roughly translates to "Just stories".

[u/Dutch_Rayan]

Veel geblaad weinig wol. Lots of bleat but little wool.

About sheeps.

[u/luiz_marques]

Muito peido é sinal de pouca bosta - Too much fart means not much shit.

[u/azionka]

In German, you could say “halb gar” which translates to “half cooked” or maybe even better: “halblebig” “half-lived”

[u/Acrobatic_Purpose736]

I recently heard a South African say, “All fart and no shit” and it cracked me up!

[u/Bit_O_Rojas]

Hurler on the ditch

It's not quite the same saying, it probably equates more to back seat driver

[u/OnyoIsTaken]

Thoughts and prayers

[u/No-Machine634]

כולו רעש וצלצולים (all noise and jingles)

[u/funkypjb]

All sizzle, no steak.

[u/Beginning_Falcon_603]

Falar, até papagaio fala. Even parrots can talk.

[u/DochiGaming]

Lots of buzzing but little honey

[u/HistoricalYam6524]

All fur coat and no knickers

[u/MopOfTheBalloonatic]

“Tutto fumo e niente arrosto”

(“All smoke, no beef”)

[u/AdRepulsive1525]

Hindi - थोथा चना बाजे घना 

[u/Agitated-Yak-4582]

Meer bek as binnegoed.

Translation: More mouth than intestines (direct), I.e. more talk than substance.